Posted on 02/04/2014 3:42:44 PM PST by matt04
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants to increase Connecticut's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017, the same rate the president proposed for the federal minimum wage.
The Democrat said the increase would make Connecticut's wage the highest in the country.
Connecticut's minimum wage increased from $8.25 to $8.70 on Jan. 1. A second increase to $9 is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2015.
Malloy, who has yet to announce his re-election plans, said an even higher wage is needed to "tackle the growing income inequality" that's hurting the middle class.
"Part of tackling that critically important challenge is making sure that we recognize that a good and decent wage is good for workers and good for business," said Malloy at a news conference in Bridgeport. "For too long, the minimum wage has not kept up with the cost of living. As studies have shown, the workers who would benefit from a minimum wage increase brought home 46 percent of their household's total wage and salary income in 2011. When workers earn more money, businesses will have more customers. This modest boost will help those earning the least to make ends meet."
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It's going to be difficult to cover the obligatory Connecticut middle-class Mercedes lease payments, insurance and gasoline on that, never mind taxes, Social Security and the mandatory Obamacare premium. And the minimum wage worker still needs a place to live - if it not possible to live in his car in the McDonalds parking lot.
Yeah, $50.50 sounds like a better idea!
Don't be so cheap - we should ALL make $200/hour.
Or maybe 1 million dollars/year salary.
Petty thinkers.
I don’t recall him making it official yet.
I'm totally down wid dat for at least the next two years.
(inflation could easily drive that number higher after that).
Governor Malloy apparently realizes that the average minimum wage worked will have his hours cut from 36 hours per week to 27 hours per week because of Obamacare.
36*$7.35 = $264.60
27*$10.10 = $272.70
In short, the proposed rise in the minimum wage is a post facto attempt to provide those with no or minimum skills the same weekly wage for less work.
But the Dumbocrats do not realize that the $8.10 weekly increase will not purchase any policy under Obamacare.
He’s giving everyone $55. That make it official.
If it were just illegal aliens and welfare queens - it would be an off election year :-)
He must be getting desperate that he won’t be able to steal another election.
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